Clark Panel: Questions & Answers

PUB. DATE

February 2001

SOURCE

Ecology Law Quarterly;2001, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p1175

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents a panel discussion on sustainable development. How academic researchers can address the need for global interdisciplinary research for sustainability; Changes in the communication between science and policy.

Discusses the environmental benefits of sustainable development. Correlation between rising income and environmental concern; Environmental effects of growth in developing countries; Factors influencing the transition to sustainable patterns of growth.

Comments on the 2002 World Conference on Sustainable Development's plans to condemn economic freedom which provides the most effective route from poverty and hopelessness. Average per capita income of the most economically free countries in 2000; Average growth rate of freest group of countries...

Addresses the challenges in establishing an environmentally sustainable economy. Evidences of conflict between the economy and the ecosystem; Requirements for an eco-economy; Differences in the perception between ecology and economics. INSET: How does all this add up?.

Reveals that Asia's economic development had a high environmental cost, according to a report. Estimated number of Asians who do not have access to safe drinking water near their homes; Other conditions that are expected to have a stark effect on the region's poor; What can produce major...

Discusses a blueprint for global sustainable development produced from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Definition of sustainable development; Objectives of the concept; Goals for each system of the development; Goals for primary environmental care.

Provides information on a study that assessed and evaluated sustainability options in South Africa using a dynamic model (LORAX) that encapsulates relationships between various sectors of the society. Methodology of the study; Results and discussion on the study; Conclusion. INSET: The LORAX...

This paper addresses the relevance of the notion of sustainable development in a regional context and the use of models for regional sustainable development policy. First, the notion of sustainable development is discussed by linking socio-economic and ecological elements. In a spatial context...